"Defying the Authorities," c.1920

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In its campaign for public bathing sites, the Woman's City Club emphasized that working-class children needed the lake's beaches as safe places for recreation.

Photographer: Unknown (produced for Woman's City Club of Chicago)
Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37260)

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